Sunday, March 15, 2015

KEEP PASSING THIS AROUND UNTIL EVERY ONE HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ IT...

THIS IS SURE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!!!!

THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THEGOVERNMENT'S CALCULATION OF AVAILABLE SOCIAL SECURITY IS THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY EVER COLLECTED A SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK!!!

WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?

Remember, not only did you and I contribute to Social Security but your employer did, too.

It totaled 15% of your income before taxes.

If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.

Read that again.

Did you see where the Government paid in one single penny?

We are talking about the money you and your employer put in a Government bank to insure you andMe that we would have a retirement check from the money we put in, not the Government.

Now they are calling the money we put in an entitlement when we reach the age to take it back.

If
you calculate the future invested value of $4,500 per year (yours &
your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% interest (less than what
the Government pays on the money that it borrows).

After
49 years of working you'd have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per
year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than
30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65) and that's with no
interest paid on that final amount on deposit!

If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.

THE FOLKS IN WASHINGTON HAVE PULLED OFF A BIGGER PONZI SCHEME

THAN BERNIE MADOFF EVER DID.

Entitlement my foot; I paid cash for my social security insurance!

Just because they borrowed the money for other government spending, doesn't make my benefits some Kind of charity or handout!!

Remember Congressional benefits?

�free healthcare,

�outrageous retirement packages,

�67 paid holidays,

�three weeks paid vacation,

�unlimited paid sick days.

Now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement payments entitlements?

They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for It all our working lives, and now, when it's time for us to collect, the government is running out of money.

Of Course Hillary Is Above The Law

Weekly Update from Dinesh D'Souza

Dear Friends,
The Hillary #ClintonEmails
are the big story this week—even with some of the mainstream media! If
Hillary were a Republican, she'd be finished over her foreign
fundraising and her private email server, but Hillary knows she is above
the law. She brushed off the allegations at her staged press conference
this week because Obama and Hillary both seem to think that as the
"first black" and the "first woman," they
are immune from normal accountability.
Hasn't Hillary compromised national security more than Petraeus
in keeping a private email system, and, if so, why isn't SHE being
indicted as he is? And what about Obama? Although Obama says he "just
found out" about Hillary's private email account, the White House
disclosed that he regularly emailed Hillary on her private email
account.
Hillary continues to make excuses, but Carey Wedler isn't sold. Check out the libertarian firebrand in her "new voices" video produced for D'Souza Media:
In news that the White House would probably prefer to keep under wraps, the Justice Department has cleared Officer Wilson of civil rights violations in the Ferguson incident. Now we can clearly see
that the whole Ferguson hoopla was built on an edifice of lies. Even
Anderson Cooper and Van Jones (kind of) agree that the "hands up"
protest was based on falsehoods!
Here's what I want to know: why is no one naming the 35-year-old
black woman who deliberately lied about Officer Wilson and provoked the
riots and mayhem? When police returned to interview her‬, she refused to
open her door and barricaded it with a couch! Where is the outrage about her actions that
mirrors the outrage about Officer Wilson's actions?
I'm excited to have completed over half of my time in
confinement, and I hope to see many of you at one of my first speaking
engagements after my term is up! I'll be talking at FreedomFest 2015 in Las Vegas this July, along with a full lineup of other liberty-lovers. Check out the details and register now.
In the meantime, if you haven't seen my latest film yet, order a copy of America today and you'll better understand what motivates not only Obama and Hillary, but the entire anti-American left.
Sincerely,
Dinesh D'Souza
P.S. Leftists banned the American flag at UC Irvine and—guess what?—their decision was reversed this week by patriotic immigrants!

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

The problem with public housing is that the people wholive in thehouse did not earn the money to build thehouse nor did they buy it;they are not the owners… theyweremerely loaned theproperty by the actual owners andjust residethere at the expense of the taxpayers.

Because of this, the residents do not have the "pride of ownership"… they do not respect the property and donot care for it as they would if it were their own. Thatcomes with the hard work necessary to become owners.

In fact, quite the opposite happens. The residents resenttheir benefactors, because the very house is a constant reminder that they themselves have not earned theright to live in the house. They neither appreciate thevalue of the property nor understand the need to maintainor respect it in any way.

The result is
the same, whether one is talking about either a studio apartment in the
projects or a magnificent mansion full of priceless antiques and
antiquities. Notethe common theme of the following photographs.

The desk in the
White House that Obama sees fit to put his feet on was built from
timbers of the HMS Resolute and was a gift from Queen Victoria to
President Rutherford B. Hayes and is considered a national treasure and
icon of the presidency.

The White House belongs to the people of America. Its treasures should NOT be used by ANYONE for a foot rest!

These photos are proof that this man has no class whatsoever and show an innate disrespect for our White House.

SO, HERE'S A MESSAGE FROM THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA:

Mr. Obama, you're not in a hut in Kenya or Indonesiaor in Chicago public housing. You're in the White House.Property of the citizens of the United States.

Monday, March 2, 2015

Latest News Events Suggest U.S. Constitution a Dead Letter

February 2015 did not just feature bitter cold in
the eastern half of the U.S., but was a news-laden month that provided a
window on a large number of our contemporary social, political, and
cultural troubles.
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Heading the list was the continuing saga of big and increasingly
threatening government in the Age of Obama. Early in the month,
President Obama proposed a budget that would increase spending on social
programs and—surprise, surprise—increase taxes on the wealthy. This is
in spite of the fact that ever-spiraling federal domestic spending over a
half-century has had limited success, caused government dependency to
deepen and even expand to the unneedy, and created a more bloated
bureaucracy than ever (the major beneficiaries seem to be the legions of
federal employees).
Even though Democrats have long cultivated this image of “socking it”
too the wealthy, how tight they actually are with them was seen in a
news story about how large corporations donated millions to the Clinton
family foundation while they were lobbying the State Department during
Hilary’s tenure there.
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The Democrats are also usually the first ones to tout integrity in
government. Another story about the Clinton foundation last month
challenged that, too: the foundation has been accepting big donations
from foreign interests and governments who would certainly be dealing
with a future Clinton administration.
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Overweening government was a repeated theme of February news stories.
Obama’s unilateral action to regularize millions of illegal aliens
continued to stir controversy, with a federal judge temporarily halting
it and Congressional Republicans taking half-hearted, uncertain steps to
try to defund it. Articles I and II of the Constitution hang in the
balance, since control over immigration policy comes right from
Congress’s enumerated powers and this is hardly something that justifies
a Lockean-type of executive prerogative. It was also revealed that as a
result of Obama’s amnesty, illegal immigrants would be eligible to
receive the earned income tax credit (even retroactively). The problem
is that under Article I Congress makes the tax laws.
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Other reports said that the Treasury Department was paying subsidies
to health insurers under Obamacare because of steps they have taken to
limit out-of-pocket costs by policyholders—even though Congress has
never authorized them. Never mind that Article I also says that federal
spending requires Congressional appropriation. There was another news
report about surveillance overkill. The National Security Agency (NSA)
collaborated with Britain’s GCHQ intelligence agency to purloin codes so
they could spy on mobile phone conversations worldwide, including
Americans’. It was another example of how such pesky concerns as privacy
and the Fourth Amendment simply wither when there’s an appeal, no mater
how tenuous, to national security. Perhaps our current government
operatives should remember Federalist 51:
while government has to control the governed, we must also “oblige it
to control itself.” We’re told that government needs to spread the spy
net widely—have universal surveillance—or otherwise we could not protect
ourselves from terrorists. Like the U.S. child protective system (CPS)
with its universal monitoring of parents, they don’t get it that when
everyone is under suspicion the resources are spread thin and the real
bad guys slip through the cracks.
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It’s interesting that, at the very time that the Democrats and their
media allies were saying it would be a national calamity if Congress
holds up Department of Homeland Security funding over the immigration
amnesty, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson admitted that his agency couldn’t do a
good job in any event. He said it’s simply unable to track every
American—which is not even a large number—who goes to join ISIS. Did he
at all consider that such things as the universal surveillance regimen
and other kinds of bureaucratic bungling (without which the Boston
Marathon bombers, the would-be Christmas Day shoe bomber, and 9/11 might
have been avoided) could be responsible for this?
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The specter of overreaching government was seen also in the FCC’s
vote, at Obama’s behest, to regulate Internet providers—“net
neutrality”—supposedly in the name of consumer protection. Besides
lacking statutory authorization for such a move—a whole new arena for
regulation has to be initiated by Congress—critics have vociferously
alleged a threat to free speech. Then, there was the proposal by Obama’s
BATF to ban a certain type of bullet used mostly for sport and
target-shooting. Again, this would circumvent Congressional
prerogatives. The end seems to justify the means. (One wonders what
actually is the end of banning sport bullets: satisfying the
leftist ideological agenda?) And don’t forget the issuance of the report
of the federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which called for
dessert taxes, worksite “obesity interventionists,” and electronic
monitoring of how long people sit in front of the TV. The “food police”
are almost a reality and the government will constantly be observing you
in your house—despite the Fourth Amendment. In 1984, the party members were the only ones under “big brother’s” constant monitoring; now it will be millions of people.
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The states were not to be outdone by the feds last month when it came
to oppressive government. Washington State tried to force a
family-owned pharmacy to sell abortifacients despite their religious
objections. Even though the family prevailed in the trial court on First
Amendment grounds in February, the state is stubbornly appealing. A
judge in the same state ruled against the elderly florist who refused to
provide a flower arrangement for a same-sex “wedding,” saying
anti-discrimination laws trump religious liberty. (Or is it that sexual
rights override even the First Amendment?) The state attorney general
wants to seize all her personal assets. I wonder if he goes after real
criminals so relentlessly, or just those who “offend” favored homosexual
groups.
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No need to worry about whether all this is compatible with the
Constitution, however, since the people on the left tell us that
constitutional principles are an evolving phenomenon. Since they long
ago stopped talking about natural rights, they probably mean the
principles of the Declaration of Independence, as well. Indeed, that
seems to be the upshot of CNN correspondent Chris Cuomo’s comments in
his February interview with Alabama Chief Justice Ray Moore. Cuomo said
squarely that our laws come from man, not from God. I wonder how he
squares that with the Declaration’s appeal to “the laws of nature and of
nature’s God.” Also, if man is the sole source of law he’s the sole
source of rights, and if he gives rights can’t he, or really those who
become powerful enough, take them away—or take them away from groups of
men they don’t like? Does Cuomo see the tyrannical, even totalitarian,
implications of that (since it all happens through government)? Or maybe
he was too busy when in college reading Rousseau to think about such a
thing.
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Speaking of favored and disfavored groups, Obama’s remarks at the
National Prayer Breakfast in February seemed more concerned about abuses
of Christian armies during the Crusades a thousand years ago—buying
into the current skewed politically correct version of the Crusades—than
about today’s ISIS and other Islamist outrages. In fact, he assiduously
avoids even the use of the terms “Islamist” or “Islamic radical” when
talking about terrorists (even though most of the current international
terrorism comes from that quarter). He decried religious intolerance,
but of course never mentioned that it’s especially prevalent in
Islamic-majority countries. Obama also went out of his way at the
month’s White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism to avoid
associating radical Islam with terrorism. This highlighted the question
many were already asking: Has Islam become the favored religion of a
largely unbelieving left, so much so that even the flood of atrocities
committed in its name are just to be ignored?
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On the family front, the February news featured further discussion
about the rights of parents to allow their young children—even when they
are as old as ten—to walk places alone (now called “free-range
parenting”) or—recall the measles stories—to refuse to have them
vaccinated. Then, there was the flap that followed from Pope Francis’
saying that spanking of children was acceptable so long as their dignity
was preserved. The stories underscored the sorry condition of parental
rights and prerogatives today, especially in the Western world: just
about everyone other than parents, whether the ubiquitous “experts,” the
omnipresent official child “protectors,” or even the anonymous busybody
down the street who is quick to call the CPS, is viewed as more
qualified to make decisions about children than their parents are.
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On the media front, there were the Brian Williams fabrication
revelations. For a long time, surveys have shown a lack of public trust
in the media. One wonders why it still seems to play such a big role in
shaping public attitudes—or, put differently, why the public is not more
critical or discerning about what it says.
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Finally, there were the cultural issues. There was a report of
alleged “racism” in a planned community in liberal, sophisticated
Austin, Texas because according to reports “people are afraid of black
males,” particularly strangers. Is this truly prejudice, or do they
possibly react that way because of the high crime rate among that
specific demographic group? Remember Jesse’s Jackson’s comment about
walking at night and feeling relief when he sees that it’s a Caucasian
behind him? Recreational marijuana became legal in Alaska and the
District of Columbia—joining Colorado and Washington—because of another
federal law that Obama won’t enforce. Notice how this is happening with
little political debate or consideration of such basic questions as:
morality (a person’s allowing his reasoning faculty to be dulled), the
teaching role that legal change plays, or the effects on the culture.
Oklahoma may withhold state funds for AP U.S. history courses in
public schools because of insufficient attention to Founding principles,
excessive focus on putative gender and racial oppression, and an
anti-American tone. The left naturally attacked this as opening the door
to intellectual obscurantism. After all, it’s a challenge to its
near-monopoly of political indoctrination in public education. Then, a Nature
article discussed fossil evidence—which are hardly airtight scientific
conclusions—of prehistoric migration from Africa to Europe. In reality,
the finding had much less to do with science than with promoting one
aspect of socio-political ideology that now permeates the academic
scientific community: Afro-centrism.
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So, there it is: February 2015’s news gave us a good snapshot of our current confusion and many of our discontents.
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Stephen M. Krason's "Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic" column appears monthly (sometimes bi-monthly) in Crisis Magazine.
He is Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies and associate
director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan
University of Steubenville. He is also co-founder and president of the
Society of Catholic Social Scientists. He is the author, most recently,
of The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic (Transaction Publishers, 2012), and editor of two volumes: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Child Protective System (Scarecrow Press, 2013) and The Crisis of Religious Liberty (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014).

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